Rael San Fratello’s signature blend of activism and architecture was forged in the months following 9/11, when founders Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello left New York for California. The pair, ...

The pink seesaws installed across the US-Mexico border last summer by architect Rael San Fratello were smuggled into place, partner Virginia San Fratello has revealed. "It was a guerrilla project," ...

Led by architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, design studio Rael San Fratello has become well-known for creating innovative and sustainable designs, but now the studio is truly breaking ...

Architectural studio Rael San Fratello has installed three pink seesaws between the metal slats of the US-Mexico border wall so that children on either side can play together. Ronald Rael, who runs ...

"Isn't it fascinating how this simple act of drawing a line on a map can transform the way we see and experience the world?" asks Ronald Rael in his December 2018 TED Talk. "And those lines on a map ...

Nine miles northwest of El Paso, a stretch of eighteen-foot-tall slats form the border wall between the United States and Mexico. In the last year alone, the site—located in Sunland Park, New ...

Despite the fact that there is a literal wall between them, children in Mexico and the United States are now able to play with each other. Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, co-founders of the ...

Rael San Fratello, "Teeter-Totter Wall" (2019), installation view (© Rael San Fratello) SAN FRANCISCO — On July 27, 2019, architecture firm Rael San Fratello installed "Teeter Totter Wall" at the ...

The banks of shades are composed of individual petals, each pivoting from the bottom of a hexagonal grid and attached to the adjacent one with a threaded connection. Each horizontal row has its own ...